Latest material enjoyment was an AC/DC short sleeve T-shirt (Highway to Hell, tie-died)\m/ and a small ALICE pack with frame for jumping. Additionally, I spent so much money in the store that the store owner gave me two free zombie buttons.

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"Satanic Story Time is a podcast which takes the listener on a journey through fiction's satanic history." http://www.satanicstorytime.com/

"Life is the great indulgence--death, the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life--HERE AND NOW!"

Now that I think about it I guess I would have to name my Birthday party on September 8 as my latest intense material enjoyment.

Indulgence not compulsion!

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"The difference between the man or woman who's a practicing Satanist, from an identity Satanist is that the practicing Satanist looks at the picture, while the identity Satanist studies the frame." -- Anton Szandor LaVey

"Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician." -- Anton Szandor LaVey

My latest material enjoyment was my recent trip to Prague. I have been there 4 times and I never grow tired of the place. Apart from being absolutely stunning, Prague boasts the best and cheapest beer you can get in the Western world.

The Bohemian capital is also famous for its magical/occult past. Edward Kelley and John Dee worked a few years in Prague, trying to find the Philosopher's Stone. The Jewish Quarter (Josefov) is famous by being the place where Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel created the mythical Golem -- as romanticized by Gustav Meyrink.

Prague is my personal Mecca -- every now and then I need to visit the city by the Vltava. Every time I'm there I have a coffee at the Kavárna Slavia (Slavia Café), a Gambrinus in a hospodá (pub), a midnight stroll through Charles Bridge, svícková (beef and dumplings with double cream) in the Olympia restaurant and, finally, another pilsener at Letenské sady (Letná Park), on the top of the hill which overlooks the city.

Here is a photo from my last trip (the silhouette of the castle in Prague, viewed from Letná):

Well my old Nokia N8 was built quite robust and served me well over a decent span of time but after taking one too many drops to hard surfaces it finally became no longer functional last week so it was time to upgrade.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is in my opinion a masterpiece of design meeting functionality and the latest Android OS is simple and intuitive to navigate. I may sound as though I'm giving a sales pitch here but I really cannot fault this phone in any way at all.

I know most people don't get a hard on for sophisticated pieces of technology like I do and will probably look at it as a fancy telephone but when I see things such as this I see the future and we're living it. With more computing power than the early space program could have even dreamed about and what is practically the ability to access the sum total of information known to man in my pocket I am filled with a sense of wonder about what marvels of technology are yet to come in my lifetime and beyond.

I live very spartan, as spartan as possible while still having a charming home. I'm not a big fan of kipple and clutter. For these reasons I own things like a Kindle (first generation) and no longer purchase things like DVDs or CDs (I acquire digital media and back it up carefully). I make exceptions for truly interesting things I simply can't obtain in my regular way.

My clothing comes from thrift stores, much of which I will have professionally altered. My clothing tends to last years and my boots are seemingly immortal. My furniture is either hand built or found, refinished and decorated. None of it is garbage. For instance my end table where I lounge is an occupied France wine barrel, which I found. My regular jacket, which I wear in the cooler seasons, originally retailed for nearly a grand and is mint (I got it for $5).

So while I do live very spartan I also make it interesting. But as a general rule I do not own things that I do not use.

So it could be said that my material enjoyment is an everyday shedding of burden, complication and kipple. I love it. I get the most enjoyment out of material possessions that are utilitarian and suit my frugal, conservationist, penny pinching nature.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is in my opinion a masterpiece of design meeting functionality and the latest Android OS is simple and intuitive to navigate. I may sound as though I'm giving a sales pitch here but I really cannot fault this phone in any way at all.

I know most people don't get a hard on for sophisticated pieces of technology like I do and will probably look at it as a fancy telephone but when I see things such as this I see the future and we're living it.

I completely concur. I also think the included S-Voice program beats Apple's Siri in a number of ways. In any case, I'd go so far as to say that having these sorts of AI programs aboard a personal phone is another extension of Pentagonal Revisionism (AHCs). Voice-response technology is still in its infancy, but I still think we're living in fascinating times!